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A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 15 nominations
Miguel Angel Aladren
- Luis
- (as Miguel Ángel Aladren)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaPaul Laverty got the idea for the movie after reading a newspaper article about the selling of Spanish ancient trees to Europe or Asia for decorative reasons. He mulled over it for a decade before actually writing it.
- GoofsAt minute 62, when the lorry is driving in continental Europe (and about to enter Germany), footage of a motorway is briefly shown, with traffic driving on the left hand side.
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Simple but well accessorized
The film opens with a telephone prank, reminding me as an American that it's to the Spanish we largely owe the art of pulling someone's leg and of amusing exaggeration. But the prank introduces an important theme, also Spanish, of who's getting the upper hand at whose expense. And the additional theme of how hard it is to retain a traditional sense of honor under 21st-century economic pressures. The plot is of the very simplest-- save the ancient olive tree!-- but the characters have side concerns of their own which, while not indispensable to plot, serve to humanize the movie and inspire empathy. The man beside me in the theater remarked two or three times, "Excellent acting." Nice music, too, and flashes of humor. My wife, who knows a little Spanish, let me know how colorless the English subtitles (here in Israel, anyway) were in comparison.
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- Jun 7, 2016
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Zeytin Ağacı
- Filming locations
- Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany(as Düsseldorf)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- €4,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $2,090,232
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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